Stop Worrying About The Damn Tools And Focus On THIS Instead...

Brian Hood (0:29)

Ray, Graham.

Chris Graham (0:30)

I needed that.

Brian Hood (0:31)

How are you doing today, Chris?

Chris Graham (0:32)

Better now.

I only do this podcast so someone will tell me I'm beautiful. I'm that needy.

Brian Hood (0:39)

Yeah, you only show up weekly because I give you one compliment at the very beginning of the night.

Chris Graham (0:43)

It's true, yeah, I'm like, oh dude, that one thing where I get a compliment, I'm there. I'm just ready for change.

Brian Hood (0:55)

Yeah, so let me stop you there, because change is coming. I've been foreshadowing this massive change we're having at the end of every episode for like the past three podcast episodes. But in case anyone hasn't heard the last few episodes or is just skips the ending because they're never that interesting, because it's just me talking about whatever, I'm gonna do a quick foreshadowing now.

Next week's episode of the podcast.

Chris Graham (1:18)

Is about the election, the American election. We're changing to a political podcast.

Brian Hood (1:23)

Stop, next week's episode of the podcast is the last episode of the 6 Figure Home Studio podcast.

That's all I'm going to say. And before people freak out and unsubscribe from the podcast out of anger, there will be a podcast. It will just no longer be the 6 Figure Home Studio podcast. We will talk about that all next week. The final episode of this podcast will be talking about what is coming next.

Chris Graham (1:45)

We gonna make it better.

Brian Hood (1:46)

Exactly, yes. So that's the massive change that's coming. The reason Chris wants change to come is because our pre-show today was the biggest train wreck of a technical nightmare we've probably ever had pre-show. Like your laptop is dying.

Chris Graham (2:00)

Yeah.

Brian Hood (2:00)

And that's caused all sorts of issues pre-show. And so like our head is not in the game today. 100% transparency here. We're gonna be at about 50% at best on our game today.

Chris Graham (2:11)

But the topic, I'm at 150%.

Brian Hood (2:14)

True.

Chris Graham (2:14)

So this might be one of our better episodes. I'm so jazzed about this. Yeah. So I'm ready for change. I feel like what we're gonna tell you guys about next week has to happen.

It's important. And for us to help you guys grow more, we have to grow as a podcast.

But I also mean change in like COVID, and it's like 84 degrees every day in Ohio right now, and it's humid, and there's just so much shit happening, and I just, I don't like it. I'm growing a lot right now, and I would like to not grow for a while and just hang out.

Brian Hood (2:48)

2020 is a pretty big train wreck, just as it is for a lot of people, and just for the world in general. So I'm pretty sure a huge chunk of our listeners right now are just shaking their head like, yes, I'm ready for some massive change in my life and in the world. So we're gonna help facilitate that change starting next week on the podcast where we announce what's happening next, and we talk about the end of the 6 Figure Home Studio podcast as we know it. I'm excited for that. So Chris, let's actually talk about the topic for this week's episode, and I can intro it. You have kind of this glazed, dead-behind-the-eyes look right now on your face right now, so I think I might intro this. Go for it. So on today's episode, we wanted to bring up sort of an angle at looking at things that most people don't think about, especially in the audio industry. We have on this podcast something called a gear slut alert. We've had it for the last 148 episodes, and we will likely continue to have it for the rest of our lives because we don't like talking about gear on this podcast. And if you talk about gear, you get the gear slut alert. It sounds like this.

Chris, if you ever added up the score between Chris' gear sled alerts and the amount that I've gotten in my life, Chris is probably 25 to 30X what I've gotten in my lifetime, if not more.

I don't get them very often. And the reason we did this, and we made this a decision from the very beginning of this podcast, is because tools are not your business. The gear, while fun, and while it's great to geek out about it, and it's fun to play around with it, that is not the business in the audio world. In the audio world, it's all about solving the problem that someone has, and we solve that through creativity. Now, I read an article the other day, and we'll link it to it in the show notes. It's called Tool Thinking versus Problem Thinking, the Two Ways to Think About Your Business. I shared this with my FilePass co-founder, Trevor, and we kind of talked back and forth about this, and it really got my brain thinking about this, not only in FilePass in our world, but also in the audio world in general, our listeners to this podcast.